I'm Having another 80's phase: Duran Style

So I'm having another 80's phase triggered by (yet another) Bret Easton Ellis novel.

While I found Imperial Bedrooms to be a less than equal sequel to the book Less Than Zero, I found myself drawn to the musical tie-ins that are typical of Ellis' novels.



Ellis uses musical references wherever possible to give his novels a sound... it really helps the reader get the mood of the scene... also helps keep the period-feeling (80's) intact.

So this week the song that I can't get out of my head is "Hungry Like the Wolf" yeah! after years of complete ignorance it took a novel to get me into Duran Duran.




You can watch and love the video HERE

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The Life and Times of a Job Hunter: Let's Resign

If you're part of the jobless masses, you can just skip this tid-bit of information.

The time came for me to think about resigning from my current job... It took me all of 2 hours to make this decision. The question that jumped all around in my mind was: How the hell do you resign.

Let me break it down for you... My current job SUCKS BALLS. I can't tell if it's my personal frustration with working there for such a long long long long long long time, OR the fact that the place just sucks ass. I debate this every day.

Banging your head against a wall until you lose 2.54 brain-cells is more productive than a day at my current job.


I had two options for resigning from this place:

1. Turn my silent scream into an actual scream sprinkled with the most colorful words from any language uttered in the history of the world

2. Leave in a classy way with a letter an such.

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I chose to resign with a letter (instead of walking out the door after the next in a series of aggravating incidents) However I am going to make a confession so lean in real close...

• I googled resignation letter
• Then I replaced the information with my own

The point: I don't have enough respect for a place that clearly doesn't give a shit about me, to use the neurons involved to create a pretty letter full of lies (i.e. "it is with regret")

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SNOW: my tribute (b/c eventually you will lose your mind)

East Coast NIGHTMARE

As I look out the window
at my snow-buried car...
at at the nightmare-ish, 2 foot thick white blanket that continues to suffocate my everything... I realize that I'm on the verge of a major nervous breakdown which perpetuated by EVERY F*CKING FLAKE. and I can't get to starbucks!!!


So I found this video from the movie White Christmas (of 4 idiots singing about the bane of my existence)
On any other day I would say this song is cute! but when I start to think about the shoveling that I'm only halfway through this song without a doubt makes me want to cry out in despair.

Watch HERE (and keep in mind that "Snow" is also a metaphor for Cocaine... oh it makes the song so much more entertaining)



Lyrics from this song to take note of:

"Snow I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow"

(personally at this point I'd rather wash in a vat of frying grease)

"Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow"

(I vow to murder any and all Snowmen, Snow Women, and any of their children)

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Review: Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

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Katy Perry's New Video: FireWork (a call to jihad)

Well Katy Perry has released yet another video from the album Teenage Dream, for a song called Firework. I like the song! I think it's got a great sound and it carries the "message" in a way that minimizes the cheesy factor.

This is a love letter to an insecure generation with very little direction.

It takes balls to pull off this type of song. Alot of songs like this are slow droning suicide anthems.

Unfortunately Katy Perry suffers from lack of direction and lack of imagination in her most recent videos. It's just a little dry. She's Fishing for GRAMMY nominations!!!!!

What happens in the video you ask?

• Katy Perry walks across a veranda to the edge and looks like she wants to jump, she's dressed in what is obviously a left over "Bride of Henry VIII" costume from the BBC bargain bin.
• Her boobies shoot out fireworks!! as cut-scenes show the standard "kids growing up in insecurity" ... oh come on! you rememeber; little girl crying cause her parents are fighting, boy with cancer (it's typical!)
• Every one in town gathers to dance around Katy, while she illuminates the night with her magical firework boobs!
  
• I think her look for this video was a mix of; "I have the plague", and "I'm a vampire" ...dash of glitter.
  

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Watch the Video HERE

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